Rush Limbaugh doesn’t think too highly of New York Times columnist David Brooks taking shots at him and the country’s other top talk radio hosts in Friday’s paper.

“Can you say JEALOUS?” Limbaugh told POLITICO in an e-mail.

Brooks wrote that despite the “remarkable volume” of hosts like Limbaugh, they display “utter weakness” in terms of actually delivering voters. For that reason, he argued, the Republican Party leadership should stop paying attention to them.

“The funny thing is that the GOP is not concerned with talk radio,” Limbaugh said. “I'm going to ignore it on air. If Brooks guests on Letterman sometime, I'll mention him.”

In the column, Brooks offered examples from recent political history when the media talked up the power of radio hosts in potentially swaying elections.

For instance, in 2008, he wrote, the talk radio contingent largely favored Mitt Romney and Fred Thompson in the Republican primaries. And yet, John McCain and Mike Huckabee claimed the top two spots. (Such criticism didn’t end in November: Glenn Beck, radio host and Fox News star, recently told CBS’s Katie Couric that McCain “would have been worse for the country than Barack Obama.”)

Brooks also wrote on the “anti-immigration fervor” across talk radio in 2006 — an issue that didn’t help Republican congressional candidates in the midterm elections. And after McCain had the 2008 GOP nomination secured, Limbaugh talked up “Operation Chaos,” a plan to get his listeners to vote for Hillary Clinton in the primary as a way of bruising Barack Obama before the general election.

“But this is not merely a story of weakness,” Brooks wrote. “It is a story of resilience. For no matter how often their hollowness is exposed, the jocks still reweave the myth of their own power. They still ride the airwaves claiming to speak for millions. They still confuse listeners with voters.”

Brooks added that “the rise of Beck, [Sean] Hannity, Bill O’Reilly and the rest has correlated almost perfectly with the decline of the GOP.”

Limbaugh brushed off the Times columnist’s criticism by asking “how many Americans know who David Brooks is?” — a view supported by another popular conservative radio host.

Mark Levin, author of the best-selling “Liberty & Tyranny,” asked two questions in an e-mail to POLTICO: “David Brooks? Does he run Brooks Brothers?”

“Here's a little insight into conservatives, conservatism and talk radio — we don't care what David Brooks has to say,” Levin said. “He is irrelevant. He is incoherent. And you guys should rely less on The New York Times. Its circulation is plummeting for a reason.”